<TITLE>03. Par 19-27</TITLE>L-19   Now, this king, Uzziah, being such a wonderful child. He had a godly father. His mother came from Jerusalem, and a godly father who was king before him, and that kind of a teaching melted into that boy.

L-20 I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I just made one vote, and that was for Christ. And He is--He is... I'm going to win on That.

L-21   Now, I--I think the greatest President, though, that we ever had, was Abraham Lincoln. Not because he was a Kentuckian, too, but it was because that the man come up from nothing. And all the books that man ever owned, from the time he was a young boy, until he was of age, almost, was the Bible and--and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. See, that molded into him (what?) that "honest Abe." He... What you read, what you do, molds your character. It--it tells what you are. And now, you see, he read where "if you did wrong, you paid for it; if you did right, God would honor it," and that molded him what he was. And his mother, a--a godly woman, too. He said, "If there is any credit given anybody, it was a godly mother," that raised him right. Now that made, I think, I would say at least one, if not the greatest, President that we had. He come up from nothing, and God made him President because he was an honest man and a good man.

L-22   Now, we find that this boy was the same. Having these godly parents, he did that which was right. When he was made king, and when he was sixteen years old, he ignored all the politics and the popular opinions of his day, and served God with reverence. That made him a real king. To ignore the politics and the modern opinion, and serve God with reverence, that was very good. His kingdom, God blessed it, was so great till it was next to Solomon's. And Solomon had the greatest that there was; but this boy was next to Solomon, in his kingdom.

L-23 It was a--a great help to the young prophet Isaiah, and him being a young chap at that time, just coming on. Being born a prophet, he watched the influence that this man had upon the people; and seen where his influence come from, because he trusted God, emphatically. And had... He noticed again, Isaiah did, how that God will bless them that will be true to God's Word.

L-24   Now we realize that this young fellow wanted to stay with the principles of what God said. He kept His laws. Uzziah wouldn't turn right or left. He stayed right with what the Word said, and God honored him and blessed him in everything he done, prospered, went right on. What a--what an example that is for any young person!

L-25 I think if we had people today, our churches who claim to be Christians, if they would abstain from the things of the world and live that kind of a life, it would influence the younger Christians to do so. But, today, when they let down, and drink and smoke, and carry on, and still try to hold their confession as Christianity, that puts a bad stumbling block in other people's way, and it makes it very hard.

L-26   Remember, the Bible said, "You are living, written epistles, read of all man." Now, many people won't read the Bible, but God has made you a living representative. You are a walking letter, should be a walking Bible, Christ in you. You should be the walking Word of God. And if you profess to be a Christian, and not that, your influence, your... What you're influencing, will make you have to answer for many souls that you've turned aside, away from Christ, in that Day of the Judgment.

L-27 I think it behooves us, tonight, to think about that, for every man, woman, boy and girl, knows that you are coming to the Judgment. You might escape this, that, or the other. You might beat the income tax, and you might escape the Internal Revenue. You might do one thing or another. You might have run over the speed limit and the cops never catch you. But, one day, Judgment is going to catch you. That's certain!


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